I'll forego my usual year-end-list bashing this time around and simply share some of the music I've been enjoying in 2021. It's been a tough year. Despite the brief jubilation felt by many at the return of live music, it has been dampened somewhat by repeated false starts, and what looks like another round of... Continue Reading →

Necropolis Podcast #35 – Boyd Rice Boyd Rice joins to discuss his worldview. Music talk is sparse, a great deal of time is spent talking about his worldview. A legend in his own right, we thank him for his time. NB from Hate Meditations: The discussion was tense but cordial. Fyi this episode will not... Continue Reading →

Dead Space Chamber Music: The Black HoursOut 3rd December, self-released ‘The Black Hours’ is the second LP from the Bristol based neoclassical group known as Dead Space Chamber Music. We’ll call it neoclassical for now, but this word must stretch ambiguously across the many moving parts of this album that require unpacking. Everything from ritual... Continue Reading →

Earlier this year I shared my thoughts on Spotify’s “Loud and Clear” mission statement. Spotify operates an unjust business model for artists and their attempt to dispel concerns about this only served to draw greater attention to their stingy payment structure. But I argued that the implications of this for the average user and independent... Continue Reading →

Krvna: SempinfernusOut 26th November on Séance Records Krvna may be from Australia, but their heart is very much Romanian, as mastermind Krvna Vatra explains: “this album very much was a way of harnessing the very utilities that helped diminish these superstitions and other darker aspects of 'Balkan' culture to, in fact, become a means of... Continue Reading →

Sometimes critical acclaim can be the worst thing to happen to an artist. Carcass in their current guise are not so much Carcass as they are the Heartwork Appreciation Society. Varg got so caught up in his legacy that he conceived a desire to rework some of his greatest hits into the warm diarrhoea that... Continue Reading →

Death metal in its purest state is a surprisingly difficult element to isolate. This could be because the disparate interpretations of the form on both sides of the Atlantic based their approaches on very different antecedents – thrash, punk, NWOBHM etc. Or it could that death metal as it is understood today – a set... Continue Reading →

#34 Hod / Pious Levus Carl (Lord Necron) and Beer (Vladibeer) join from the band Hod to discuss their music. Also, some bants. Being that both men are veterans of the metal scene here in San Antonio, we went in-depth into the scene here, their other projects, and so forth.

Morguiliath: Occult Sins, New Unholy DimensionOut 26th November on Osmose Productions Old gods under new lights, this is apparently the order of the day for this French black metal outfit. Morguiliath is the solo project of one...Rats. Their new album ‘Occult Sins, New Unholy Dimension ‘ sees Rats offer up a template of raw but... Continue Reading →

Goatcraft: Sic Transit Gloria MundiOut 26th November on I,Voidhanger Records Within the milieu of metal instrumentation, the keyboard is often viewed as a means to an end, an affordable substitute for a rich array of instrumentation. For the vast majority of musicians, access to a real orchestra is well beyond budgetary means, and even for... Continue Reading →